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Case Study: Mãe de santo Bianca de Xango (São Gonçalo, Brazil)

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Ristina Gooden on Spiritual Innovation

Spiritual innovation is the creative, transformative, and subversive ways that Black women engage with and reinterpret spiritual practices, beliefs, and traditions that affirm their dignity, resist oppression, and cultivate communal and personal liberation.

Mapping Spiritual Innovation presents early insights from a national field study examining how groups inspired by religious traditions are creating social change through innovative models that often disrupt traditional delivery systems and translate spiritual practices in new ways.